Luisella Boni

Acting

Luisella Boni

Born

1935-07-24 (91)

Place of birth

Como, Lombardy, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Luisella Boni (born 24 July 1935) is an Italian actress. Born in Como, Lombardy, as Luisa Angela Bozzo, Boni debuted in 1952 in Bernard Vorhaus' film Finishing School. One of the most active actresses in Italian cinema between the early fifties and mid-sixies, she slowed her activity after her marriage to television director Daniele D'Anza in 1965. In the 1960s, she was sometimes credited as Brigitte Corey. She was also active on television and the stage.

Known for

Land of the Pharaohs poster
6.5

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.

Land of the Pharaohs

1955

Love in the City poster
6.5

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.

Love in the City

1953

The Anatomy of Love poster
6.4

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

The Anatomy of Love

1954

The Shortest Day poster
6.4

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

The Shortest Day

1963

Conqueror of Maracaibo poster
9.0

Alan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of which he is innocent. He decides to go to America, but during his trip, he finds a Spanish galleon that saved from attack by pirates, and escorting the galleon to Maracaibo. Braves is first received with full honors for saving a Spanish ship but after that is reported to the Governor, Braseeur, the pirate traitor. It is, therefore, arrested and sentenced to death from the visualization of torture ...

Conqueror of Maracaibo

1961

Melissa poster
NR

Always on the hunt for news, journalist Guy Foster has no idea that he will soon be the subject of the city's crime pages: when his wife Melissa is found strangled in Regent's Park, he will be the first on the list of suspects. His innocence remains to be proven, as does the phone call the journalist claims to have received from his wife shortly before her body was discovered. A second murder and an attempted murder will further complicate matters...

Melissa

1966

Film credits

1960s · 10 titles

The Shortest Day poster
6.4

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

The Shortest Day

1963

Conqueror of Maracaibo poster
9.0

Alan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of which he is innocent. He decides to go to America, but during his trip, he finds a Spanish galleon that saved from attack by pirates, and escorting the galleon to Maracaibo. Braves is first received with full honors for saving a Spanish ship but after that is reported to the Governor, Braseeur, the pirate traitor. It is, therefore, arrested and sentenced to death from the visualization of torture ...

Conqueror of Maracaibo

1961

The Fury of Hercules poster
4.5

In a tyrannical kingdom there is an evil ruler and a queen who lusts after Hercules who is attracted to a handmaiden. A rebellion overthrows the ruler.

The Fury of Hercules

1962

Fra' Manisco cerca guai... poster
8.0

Father Pacifico is a genuine friar with a brisk manner, for this reason he is nicknamed Father Manisco. The religious finds himself grappling with a thorny case, as Don Liborio, a Neapolitan lord, dominates all local events, including the love choices of his young daughter. Father Pacifico manages to restore harmony and order despite a thousand difficulties.

Fra' Manisco cerca guai...

1960

Samson poster
5.7

While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom. Samson teams up with some of his one-time adversaries to battle the usurper and restore the rightful queen to power.

Samson

1961

Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli

1967

Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli

1967

Tutto Totò - La scommessa poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tutto Totò - La scommessa

1967

Sfida nella città dell'oro poster
6.0

The German Tourist Frank Fleischer gets into drugs and spy story.

Sfida nella città dell'oro

1962

Voyage to Danger poster
7.0

Sailors Jochen, Carlo, and Blacky sign on to an old steamboat. It's a good thing Blacky oversleeps the ship's departure. This allows him to track down a gang of criminals. Their boss is planning an insurance fraud and wants to blow up the ship and its crew.

Voyage to Danger

1962

1950s · 19 titles

Land of the Pharaohs poster
6.5

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.

Land of the Pharaohs

1955

Love in the City poster
6.5

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.

Love in the City

1953

The Anatomy of Love poster
6.4

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

The Anatomy of Love

1954

L'orfana del ghetto poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'orfana del ghetto

1955

Eighteen Year Olds poster
6.0

Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.

Eighteen Year Olds

1955

Whom God Forgives poster
5.6

Set in rural South of Spain in the 19th century, tells the story of group of outlaws, from very different origins, trying to survive, hiding from the law enforcement officers in caves in a hilly area, and their struggle against the evil mining company that exploits the poor people of their home village.

Whom God Forgives

1957

Tabarin poster
5.5

Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants the best for the public, at the expense of his health. He is assisted in his task by his wife Rosine and his lively secretary Mimi. Chance has it that one of the dancers he auditions for a new show is Florence, his former lover. He doesn't want her in the show but the spiteful belle has a rich influential protector who imposes her anyway. Some time later, Jacques falls victim of a heart attack.

Tabarin

1958

Tabarin poster
5.5

Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants the best for the public, at the expense of his health. He is assisted in his task by his wife Rosine and his lively secretary Mimi. Chance has it that one of the dancers he auditions for a new show is Florence, his former lover. He doesn't want her in the show but the spiteful belle has a rich influential protector who imposes her anyway. Some time later, Jacques falls victim of a heart attack.

Tabarin

1958

La trovatella di Milano poster
10.0

Love story set in Milan during the Five Days of 1848.

La trovatella di Milano

1955

The Treasure of Bengal poster
5.3

A fun fantasy classic for the entire family! In this exotic adventure, young hero Ainur played by Sabu is living in a remote Hindu village. There he must protect the town treasure, the world's largest ruby, from being stolen.

The Treasure of Bengal

1953

Cavalier in Devil's Castle poster
9.0

A mysterious horseman, called the Dark Knight, sets himself up as a masked vigilante and decides to free the duchet of Valgrado from the grip of a terrible tyrant.

Cavalier in Devil's Castle

1959

Cavalcade of Song poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cavalcade of Song

1953

Adventure in the city poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adventure in the city

1959

Nana poster
6.1

In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls madly in love with Nana, a young kept woman and star of the Théâtre des Variétés. This all-consuming passion will lead nowhere and, like Nana's other lovers, will lead him to ruin and crime... An adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.

Nana

1955

Le belle dell'aria poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le belle dell'aria

1957

I mafiosi poster
8.0

Two people killed in a small village in Sicily. Turi, a friend of one of the victims, asking the employer of the local mafia for help. The Mafia started an investigation and Turi self seeking those responsible for the crime, but without success. Meanwhile Turi meets Odette, a French journalist who arrive in Sicily collect data on the activities of the Mafia. Turi and Odette are in love, but...

I mafiosi

1959

L'angelo delle Alpi poster
9.0

After the death of her adoptive mother, a shy and innocent girl becomes the maid of a rich family and her arrival disrupts the lives of the people she meets.

L'angelo delle Alpi

1956

Il piccolo vetraio poster
7.8

A poor fisherman entrusts his children Piero and Nino for money to the Frenchman Neroni who recruits young men to work in his glass factory.

Il piccolo vetraio

1955

Las aeroguapas poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Las aeroguapas

1957

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